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Ireland: Britain pressed to hand over files on UVF 1974 atrocities

THE Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) has backed victims’ calls for Britain to come clean over its role in 1974’s Dublin-Monaghan bombings.

Tuesday marked the 42nd anniversary of the attacks by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) which killed 33 people — including a pregnant woman near full term.

A wreath-laying ceremony — organised by Justice for the Forgotten, which campaigns for an investigation into alleged British state collusion in the 1974 massacre — was held at the memorial on Talbot Street in Dublin, where one of the three bombs in the capital exploded.

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